Theodorus Wilhelmus Joseph (Dick) Commandeur Citizenship
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C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E Name : Theodorus Wilhelmus Joseph (Dick) Commandeur Citizenship : Dutch Date of birth: October, 2 1961 Actual residence: Sucre, Bolivia Postal address : Calle Calvo 237, Sucre Telephone : (+591)-75769393 (mobile) E-mail: [email protected] PROFILE SUMMARY Dick Commandeur is a general rural development expert with emphasis on economic themes, private sector and producer organization development, and inclusive public procurement. His 28 years of professional experience started from a study at Wageningen University in the Netherlands oriented towards rural development, later complemented with studies on micro-economics of competitiveness, marketing and quality management. A central topic in the last 16 years of his professional exercise has been the Value Chain Development approach, in which framework he has gained experience with an extended number of agribusiness chains. During the last years, he expanded his experience related with services for university, professional and virtual education. He exercised professionally in different functions, most of them with duration between 2 and 5 years and with SNV Netherlands Development Organization, related with development cooperation programs in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ghana and other African countries. He worked 9 years in management positions, specifically as Portfolio Coordinator and Project Leader, and 19 years as an international advisor and consultant. Since 2010 has worked as independent consultant, mainly active with development proposal writing and project backstopping. He has written a considerable number of documents, several were published. Key themes are Producer Organization Strengthening, Economic Development, Inclusive Public Procurement and External Cooperation for these processes. He has an extended network of relevant contacts in Latin America, North America, Africa and the Netherlands, related with his profession and more generally with the areas of development and international cooperation. He keeps abreast of the political and social context and innovation in topics related with economic and political development in a wide range. EDUCATION 1980 – 1988 Agricultural University of Wageningen, the Netherlands: title of engineer in the degree of "doctoraal" (equivalent of Master of Science) in Animal Husbandry, with postgraduate studies in Agrarian Sociology of non-Western Regions, Change Processes in the Third World (at the Catholic University of Nijmegen) and Grassland Science. 2005 Specialization in Microeconomics of the Competitiveness (methodology of the Harvard Business Institute), at the Catholic University of Bolivia within its program: Masters for Development. 2007 – 2008 Specialization in Marketing Management, at the Open University of the Netherlands. 2008 Specialization in Quality Management, at the Open University of the Netherlands (without certification). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ADVISORY, CONSULTANCY AND TEACHING SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR for the United States offices of SNV Netherlands Development Organization, with main responsibility to support the implementation of the Procurement Governance for Home Grown School Feeding project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented in Kenya, Ghana and Mali. Principal topics of the project are the access of smallholder farmers in the public procurement process, their inclusion in the supply chain directly or within inclusive business agreements and the social accountability. Besides, I support other partnerships and proposal writing initiatives of the SNV US office for SNV in Mali, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. This support contributed to approval of other grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. September 2011 – September 2016. CONSULTANT for SNV Ethiopia: Technical backstopping mission for the Cooperatives for Change project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to propose and discuss ideas for continuation of the project. December 2015. LECTURER at the Andean University Simon Bolivar, for the virtual Master Course “Rural Development”, with students from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Topic: Associations and producer organizations. 2014 – 2015. COORDINATOR of an e-learning program “Value Chain Development” for SNV Central and West Africa: Elaboration of the structure for the e-learning and e-coaching, negotiation with the expertise institute, organization of the implementation of the program within SNV and technical and content support for the implementation. In total, some 50 advisors and consultants participated in the program. February 2009 – December 2012. CONSULTANT: Lead technical writer of a 7.5 million US$ project approved by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on procurement governance for Home Grown School Feeding programs. The project aims to give access to smallholder farmers to the supply chains to local and national school feeding programs. April 2010 – August 2011. LECTURER at the University of San Francisco Xavier of Sucre, Bolivia, for the following course: The virtual Master Course “Development strategies, policy and proyects”. Topics: The concept of rural development, and Technological and market factors in rural development projects. February – April 2009. LECTURER at the University of San Francisco Xavier of Sucre, Bolivia, for the following courses: The Master Course “Agribusiness and Supply Chains”. Topic: Alliances of Small Farmers in Chains. The theoretical-practical course “Municipality Planning and Development” for students of the last 2 years of the Economy Faculty. Topic: Local Economic Development. Development of two other topics: Clusters, for the Master Course “Agribusiness and Productive Chains”, and Biocommerce, for the Master Course “Management of Natural Resources and Environment”. January – April 2008. CONSULTANT: Promotion of opportunities for different Bolivian municipalities, public service institutions and private companies related with the Clean Development Mechanism (in the context of the Kyoto Agreement about Climate Change). Networking with other experts in Bolivia and the Netherlands. May – December 2007. I gave a conference at the Local Development Forum in La Paz about strategic planning, for the benefit of municipal representatives. December 2007. SENIOR ADVISOR AND THEMATIC LEADER of SNV Netherlands Development Organization in Bolivia for the impact area Jobs and Income. Among others, the function included direct support to national public and private sector stakeholders, participation in an expert team at Latin-American level for the development of advisory services and products, guidance to other advisors in Bolivia and delivery of lectures at events organized by institutions like the Competitivity Councils of the departments of Santa Cruz and Tarija, Pact Latin-America, Forum for Local Economic Development of Sucre, the Chamber of Commerce of Sucre and the Latin-American alliance Ruralter. February 2004 – April 2007. LECTURER for a course on Ecological Production, at the San Francisco Xavier University of Sucre, Bolivia. September 2002. ADVISOR, hired by SNV, for the Wheat Producers’ Association (APT) of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Some important results: successful negotiation for 2 big project grants; effective relationship with a national credit institute; organizational autonomy of the APT, with its own strategic plan; re-configuration of the organization; and an acknowledged positioning of APT at local, regional and national level. December 1994 - July 1998. ADVISOR, hired by SNV Bolivia, for the Farmer’s Agriculture Corporation (CORACA) of Potosi, Bolivia. Some important results: a strategic plan for 10 years for the organization and the introduction of a participative planning methodology for the local farmers’ organizations. March 1993 - September 1994. CONSULTANT, hired by SNV Bolivia, for the realization of a study about the perspectives of milk production in the surroundings of Sucre. The study was part of a feasibility study for the Dairy Plant in the same city, which later on was privatized and acquired by the small producers. April 1993. CONSULTANT hired by SNV Bolivia, for the elaboration of project documents for the small farmers’ organizations CORACA Potosí and COINCA Potosí, with the following topics: participative planning and organization strengthening, agriculture, animal production and commercialization. The documents were the base of a program for the strengthening of economic farmers’ organization, financed during 10 years by the Dutch government. December 1992 - February 1993. ADVISOR for the Agriculture Department of the Bolivian NGO Yunta, hired by International Service (Great Britain). My work areas were: enhancement of credit programs, agriculture projects, organization strengthening and interinstitutional coordination. I was representative of the employees in the board and in the Assembly of the NGO association UNITAS. September 1988 - September 1992. CONSULTANT, hired by SNV Bolivia, for the elaboration of cooperation profiles for the organizations ADEPLECH (Sucre) and FEDECA (Santa Cruz). Besides, I realized a study on the perspectives for animal production in the work region of CORACA-Potosí. February 1992. MANAGEMENT PORTFOLIO COORDINATOR of SNV Netherlands Development Organization Ghana in the Eastern and Volta Regions. I coordinated a team of 9 Ghanaian and international advisors, working with around 25 clients and partners. Among others, the portfolio addressed issues related with development of value chains for pineapple, mango and